Labour Court declines jurisdiction over Sarah Hayes’s appeal involving Dublin City University

The Labour Court declined jurisdiction over Sarah Hayes’s appeal involving Dublin City University, finding it could not reopen a Rights Commissioner’s final decision. The determination was dated 8 July 2013. A Rights Commissioner had found Hayes’s claim well founded in July 2011 and awarded her a contract of indefinite duration. After a dispute arose about the contract’s terms, Hayes withdrew an enforcement application and made a fresh application. The Labour Court found that the fresh complaint sought to reopen the 2011 case after the appeal period had passed; the merits of the fresh complaint were not decided.